Commit 9b244ad1 authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

#18243: Remove obsolete cautionary note from email mktime_tz docs.

parent 32ae4378
......@@ -76,12 +76,9 @@ There are several useful utilities provided in the :mod:`email.utils` module:
.. function:: mktime_tz(tuple)
Turn a 10-tuple as returned by :func:`parsedate_tz` into a UTC timestamp. It
the timezone item in the tuple is ``None``, assume local time. Minor
deficiency: :func:`mktime_tz` interprets the first 8 elements of *tuple* as a
local time and then compensates for the timezone difference. This may yield a
slight error around changes in daylight savings time, though not worth worrying
about for common use.
Turn a 10-tuple as returned by :func:`parsedate_tz` into a UTC
timestamp (seconds since the Epoch). If the timezone item in the
tuple is ``None``, assume local time.
.. function:: formatdate([timeval[, localtime][, usegmt]])
......@@ -165,4 +162,3 @@ There are several useful utilities provided in the :mod:`email.utils` module:
.. [#] Note that the sign of the timezone offset is the opposite of the sign of the
``time.timezone`` variable for the same timezone; the latter variable follows
the POSIX standard while this module follows :rfc:`2822`.
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